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Journal of Thermal Biology is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 5.4), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0306-4565Verify ISSN ↗1879-0992Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,360 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orthopedics and Sports Medicine | 52 / 340 | 84th | Q1 |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) | 43 / 235 | 81st | Q1 |
| Physiology (medical) | 41 / 117 | 65th | Q2 |
| Physiology | 72 / 196 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Developmental Biology | 29 / 78 | 63rd | Q2 |
| Biochemistry | 200 / 448 | 55th | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1975–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 5.4.
Journal of Thermal Biology is Q1 in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine (rank 52 of 340), Q1 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all) (rank 43 of 235) and Q2 in Physiology (medical) (rank 41 of 117), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 6 subject areas in all.
Journal of Thermal Biology is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 5.4, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 84th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.642, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 94.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,360 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Journal of Thermal Biology is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its print ISSN is 0306-4565 and its online ISSN is 1879-0992.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Journal of Thermal Biology has an h-index of 112 and a 2-year mean of 3.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 5.4, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #44 of 331 Scopus journals in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
Journal of Thermal Biology published 317 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 100 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (30.1%), United States (7.5%) and Mexico (4.8%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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